Aviation Facilities
Sonoran Facility Solutions provides owner-side aviation facility advisory focused on operational readiness, baggage handling systems, CBIS integration, commissioning and turnover, stakeholder alignment, and project recovery. The work is grounded in airport operations and facilities experience—not generic project administration.
The Operating Reality
Construction, controls work, screening changes, system cutovers, tenant coordination, and commissioning all occur inside an operating environment with security, safety, airline, passenger, regulatory, and maintenance obligations that remain active every day.
Outbound and inbound baggage functions have to remain available while equipment, controls, screening interfaces, and conveyor systems are modified or replaced.
TSA interfaces, screening continuity, sterile-area boundaries, access controls, and temporary operating conditions need to be resolved before the cutover window arrives.
Station managers and frontline airline teams experience the operational consequences of phasing decisions immediately. Their requirements need a defined path into project decisions.
Maintainability, training, controls support, spare parts, documentation, and acceptance determine whether a delivered system can actually be operated after turnover.
Completion is not the same as operational acceptance. Readiness criteria should demonstrate that systems, people, procedures, training, and support are prepared together.
Airport leadership, Facilities, Operations, IT, Public Safety, TSA, airlines, contractors, designers, and vendors need clear ownership of decisions and dependencies.
Aviation Advisory Capabilities
SFS works where project delivery and ongoing airport operations intersect.
Operational requirements, baggage-flow continuity, temporary systems, inline screening interfaces, controls dependencies, cutover planning, acceptance, training, and maintenance readiness.
Readiness criteria, stakeholder responsibilities, training, procedures, trial activity, transition planning, communications, contingency planning, and acceptance preparation.
Owner-side review of commissioning strategy, functional readiness, documentation, deficiencies, turnover packages, warranty transition, support coverage, and post-activation stabilization.
When delivery problems begin affecting the operating plan, SFS helps identify the operational exposure, frame decisions, clarify immediate priorities, and rebuild a defensible path forward.
Translate technical and construction decisions into operational impacts that airport departments, airlines, TSA, maintainers, and executive decision-makers can act on.
Keep owner expectations visible through design, implementation, testing, activation, and turnover so operational needs are not diluted as the project moves between teams.
Owner-Side Role
SFS is most useful when an airport, program team, designer, CMAR, contractor, or system provider needs someone focused specifically on how project decisions will affect the owner’s operating environment.
Bring airport facilities and operating experience into decisions before field execution makes them difficult or expensive to change.
Convert technical, schedule, procurement, commissioning, and cutover issues into clear operational consequences and decision points.
Challenge whether the facility, system, staff, support model, training, and contingency plan are truly ready for activation.
Create clear owner-facing records, readiness criteria, action registers, risk statements, and acceptance logic that support accountable decisions.
Plan • Design • Implement • Manage
Relevant experience includes airport facilities development, baggage handling system replacement and controls work, TSA screening interfaces, airline coordination, operational continuity, commissioning and turnover, and owner-side project leadership within active airport environments.
Start the Conversation
A short discussion is usually enough to determine whether SFS can add value as an owner-side operational advisory layer.
Tell me where the project is, what is changing, and what operational concern is keeping you up at night.
Email David Moore